Vladimir Geshkenbein leads EPT Berlin Day 1a

Tuesday, 17 April 2012

The PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin began yesterday with 243 players competing in Day 1a. Come the end of the day just 110 of them had made it through to Day 2 with Russian pro Vladimir Geshkenbein leading the way.

The only man to take his 30,000 starting stack above the 200,000 milestone, Geshkenbein apparently spent the better part of the day conforming to Russian stereotypes and drinking vodka. Whatever works.

A host of PokerStars Pros survived to Day 2 also, including Barry Greenstein, Vanessa Selbst and Pierre Neuville. Day 1b begins today with a total field of around 700 players expected for the tournament.

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Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.

“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”